Business Analyst

This position may be located at any of First Interstate Bank's offices in Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington or Wyoming.

We know your career is just one aspect of a meaningful, complex, and demanding life. That's why we designed our compensation and benefits package to provide employees and their families with as much choice as possible.

• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) in addition to paid federal holidays.
• Student debt employer repayment program.
• 401(k) retirement plan with a 6% match.
• The health and happiness of the places we call home matter to us. Learn a little more about what we do for the communities we serve and why we want YOU to be a part of it.

The Business Analyst independently partners with business leaders, Business Relationship Managers, Enterprise Architecture, and technology teams to analyze business needs, document requirements, and identify process improvement opportunities. This role facilitates requirements‑gathering activities, evaluates solution options, and supports project delivery across multiple initiatives while balancing business objectives, risks, and technology considerations to achieve desired outcomes.

• Analyzes existing business processes, identifies gaps and inefficiencies, and recommends process improvement opportunities.
• Contributes to business case development by identifying benefits, assumptions, costs, dependencies, and risks.
• Independently gathers, documents, validates, and manages business requirements for projects and initiatives.
• Translates business needs into functional requirements that support successful solution delivery.
• Creates business requirements documents, user stories, process flows, acceptance criteria, and supporting project artifacts.
• Maintains the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) throughout the project lifecycle and ensures requirements are traced through design, testing, and implementation.
• Partners with stakeholders to prioritize requirements, manage scope, and align solution outcomes with business objectives.
• Documents reporting, data, and measurement requirements needed to support business processes and decision‑making.
• Partners with Quality Assurance and business stakeholders to ensure business requirements are appropriately represented in testing activities, supports test planning and validation efforts, and provides requirements clarification throughout testing and defect‑resolution activities.
• Identifies and communicates risks, dependencies, assumptions, and potential impacts to project teams and stakeholders.
• Facilitates stakeholder interviews, workshops, process reviews, and requirements‑gathering sessions.
• Facilitates communication between business and technical teams throughout the project lifecycle.
• Collaborates with Enterprise Architecture and technology teams to evaluate solution options and support decision‑making.
• Provides guidance, coaching, and knowledge sharing to Associate Business Analysts and less experienced team members.
• Consistently applies business analysis standards while identifying opportunities to enhance processes and practices.
• Facilitates requirements review and approval activities with business stakeholders.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Experience independently eliciting, documenting, validating, and managing business requirements.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with the ability to evaluate…